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Island Books
Island Books is the best used bookstore for miles, with a good Hawaiiana section and an extremely knowledgeable owner. Move fast or get caught in his enjoyable chatter.
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Beyond Comics 2
Teens love this small shop crowded with scores of new and used comic books. Trading cards and heaps of action figurines from TV, movies and animation are also for sale.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Store
Sales of fine-art reproductions and books, stationery and jewelry selected by expert curators, art historians and designers support the NYC museum’s cultured mission.
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Sudha's Art Gallery
Run by the longtime chairman of the East Hawai'i Cultural Center, Sudha's Art Gallery sells high-quality paintings, sculpture and woodworking. Upstairs, find secondhand books.
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World Bank Infoshop
The controversial multilateral lender runs the excellent World Bank InfoShop, which sells a vast collection of books and documents on all aspects of development and economics.
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Fremont Place Book Co
This is a friendly little place with a relatively small but interesting collection of new fiction and nonfiction. Ask about in-store author readings and monthly discussion groups.
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Bookstore in the Grove
Coconut Grove's independent bookstore is a good spot for all kinds of lit, and has a great cafe (try the empanadas) to boot.
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Trover Shop
This two-level goldmine is a DC institution for books, cards and gifts. It also has a wide selection of books on tape, which are rentable. Unsurprisingly, its section on politics is primo.
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Edith King Wilcox Gift Shop
Located at Kaua'i Museum, this shopping delight features a broad selection of Hawaiiana books, plus koa bowls and other handicrafts. Enter the shop, free of charge, through the museum lobby.
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Beckham’s Bookstore
Across the street from the House of Blues live-music venue, this large, neatly organized store has two floors of used books, and also sells used classical LPs. It’s definitely worth a browse.
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East-West Books
With a calming effect that takes place upon entering, this groovy bookstore stocks a wide array of books on Buddhism and Asian philosophies, plus chill-out music, yoga mats and earthy-crunchy jewelry.
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Garcia Street Books
Scavengers are rewarded with excellent bargains as well as the town's best selection of art books, and such rarities as the wood engraving prints of Willard Clark.
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UAF Bookstore
Next door to the Wood Center is the Constitution Hall, where territorial delegates drafted the constitution for statehood. Now it houses the UAF Bookstore which sells highbrow texts plus Alaskan titles.
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Raven Used Books
Tucked into a tiny basement, Raven knows its audience: its 14,000 books focus on scholarly titles, especially in the liberal arts. Bibliophiles agree that the quality and condition of books is top-notch.
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Faubourg Marigny Book Store
The South’s oldest gay bookstore is a ramshackle, intellectual spot and a good place to pick up local ‘zines and catch up on the New Orleans scene, gay or otherwise. Look for the subtle (enormous) rainbow flag.
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Magus Books
Magus is a great used-book store, the kind of place where you can literally spend hours getting lost in the crooked, narrow aisles on the hunt for that obscure title you’re not sure you can even remember anymore.
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Bead Museum
The Bead Museum Washington DC closed its doors to the public on December 31st, 2008. The majority of the programs affiliated with the museum will continue as activities of The Bead Society of Greater Washington.
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Lambda Rising
This landmark in gay and lesbian DC sells CDs and videos, as well as books covering a range of provocative topics. Check out the flyers and free giveaways near the door to find out what’s happening in gay DC.
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Garden District Bookshop
In the Rink, this place offers a select collection of 1st-edition works. It also stocks mostly new books about the region and hosts book signings with local authors, who have a habit of dropping in every now and then.
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Crescent City Books
You'll want to include this two-story concern in your tour of the city's book shops. Crescent City stocks a healthy blend of hard-to-find out-of-print titles and newly published volumes. Prices are generally reasonable.
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Shakespeare & Co
This popular New York bookstore is one of the city’s great indie options - with other locations, including Upper East Side. You’ll find a wide array of contemporary fiction and nonfiction, art books and tomes about NYC, plus a small but unique collection of periodicals.
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Big Planet Comics
Not just for comic-book-loving geeks, Big Planet appeals to a surprisingly diverse audience, with an excellent collection of limited editions and graphic novels, plus posters, t-shirts, manga material and collectible stuff.
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Peter Miller Architecture & Design Books
This store, whose window arrangements can make a bibliophile or a design fiend drool, specializes in luxurious architecture books. It also sells gorgeous stationery and writing instruments, sketchbooks and some art supplies.
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Talk Story: The Bookstore
A used bookstore that's also the town's gathering place where there's live music on Friday nights, cribbage on Tuesday and chess on Thursday. You'll also find wi-fi and book signings. Owners Ed and Cynthia exude aloha spirit.
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Northshire Bookstore
An enormous independent bookstore with comfy nooks everywhere. It shares a huge hangout space with the attached java-and-munchies joint, Spiral Café, which offers wireless internet access and two computers with free usage.
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